By Avril Lumley Prior
Our knowledge of the Fenland Saints - Guthlac of Crowland and his sister, Pega of Peakirk, is extracted mainly from an eighth-century Life of Guthlac, compiled by a monk named Felix, probably at Repton Abbey in Derbyshire. [click to continue…]
Our Easter and that of the Orthodox Church rarely coincide. Last year the two were as far apart as could be with Orthodox Easter on 27/4, so the time seemed right to fulfil our wish to experience Greek Easter at first hand. We booked independently to return to a quiet seaside village on the Peloponnese which we visited the previous year. [click to continue…]